Apple Announces iPad2

For almost one year, Apple has owned the tablet market. In fact, it's had the market almost entirely to itself. That began changing at the end of last year, with a constant stream of announcements and product launches from Cisco, Research In Motion, Samsung, and more, leading to an absolute avalanche of new products announced and demonstrated at CES this January. And those products have been, at least on a feature basis, easily superior to the original iPad. Just as some of those products have s

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It was a mystery whether legendary Apple CEO Steve Jobs would show for the March 2 event, given his leave of absence because of an illness, reported to be a recurrence of cancer. When Jobs walked on stage, he got a deafening standing ovation. He looked frail but pleased to help unveil the second iteration of Apple's market-dominating tablet. "We've got something great to announce today," he said, "and I didn't want to miss it."

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